Biographie

She was also a degreed anthropologist, and a very successful businessperson, particularly in real estate.

Yvette and her husband owned a resort in Mexico. Many celebrities vacationed there. Mr. Ruby is world famous for his National Geographic photographs, especially of polar bears.

Yvette was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, the daughter of María del Carmen (Montemayor González) and Rene Albert Mimieux.

On the March 10, 2022 (A Suitcase Full of Cash and a Yellow Clown Car (2022)) broadcast of Young Sheldon (2017), executive producer Chuck Lorre's trademark end of show "vanity cards," paid tribute:

"Yvette Mimieux In Memoriam The Year was 1960. I was eight years old. I went to see a movie called La Machine à explorer le temps (1960) and fell hopelessly in love. From the minute Yvette appeared on screen, I was smitten. She played an Eloi, a member of a beautiful, frustratingly passive race of people in the far, far future. The Eloi were the sole food source for the horrible, troll-like Morlocks. Needless to say, this was a very stressful matinee for me. I didn't want the woman of my dreams to be eaten. Thankfully, she was rescued and I didn't have to cope with cinematic tragedy until I saw Steve McQueen die in La canonnière du Yang-Tsé (1966) (I'm still upset over that). So I would like to pay tribute to my first crush. Yvette Mimieux. My second crush came a few years later. Raquel Welch, trying not to be eaten while running around in a fur bikini".

Her father was born in London, England, to a French father, from Nievre, Bourgogne, and an ethnic German mother, from Saint Paness Padding. Yvette's mother was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.